A Man May Do Both

“‘Halflings!’ laughed the rider that stood beside Eomer.  ‘Halflings!  But they are only a little people in old songs and children’s tales out of the North.  Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?’

‘A man may do both,’ said Aragorn.  ‘For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.  The green earth, say you?  That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!'”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers